Differences highlighted in YELLOW
Government
System Integrator
Both Government and System Integrator
Figure 1

Advanced programs have recognized that application portability is a goal, but that systemlevel interoperability is the higher order functionality that is needed.

Interoperability in System of
Systems
Interoperability is being brought
to the top line as a delivery requirement
where interoperability is more than a
common infrastructure, common messages or COTS technologies. The DoD
and MoD are mandating the data-centric architecture of systems they wish to
procure. And that is a common systems
architecture that clearly and unambiguously describes the data, its structure, its
context and its behavior. They are doing
this for systems specific domains like
combat vehicles, Unmanned Control Systems and avionic flight control.

By mandating, managing and verifying interoperability, the MoD and
DoD seek to closely align the defense
market with the operation of open commercial markets. The most important
commercial market benefit sought is
open market competition for subsystem
suppliers. Defense procurement seeks
to foster investment ahead of specified requirements, driving differentiation through cost and innovation and
building agility into the procurement
process. The core technology-enabling
tenet of this approach is the development of a common system of systems
architecture that satisfies the systemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s